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Students’ Attitudes Towards Career In The Tourism Industry – Implications For Tacit Knowledge Management, Marlena A. Bednarska, Marcin Olszewski Jan 2013

Students’ Attitudes Towards Career In The Tourism Industry – Implications For Tacit Knowledge Management, Marlena A. Bednarska, Marcin Olszewski

Journal of Entrepreneurship, Management and Innovation JEMI

The success of tacit knowledge management lies in firms’ capabilities to attract and retain employees possessing unique knowledge. The purpose of the paper is to investigate students’ attitudes towards career in tourism in the context of tacit knowledge management. The study was conducted on the group of 345 undergraduates and graduates enrolled in tourism and hospitality studies in Poznan. Research revealed that majority of students plan short-term career in tourism, which entails tacit knowledge leakage outside the tourism industry. It was also found that students’ attitudes towards tourism careers are significantly influenced by previous work experience and satisfaction with the …


The Main Burdens Of Doing Business Perceived By Family-Owned Hospitality Enterprises In Slovakia, Ľudmila Šmardová, Ľuboš Elexa Jan 2013

The Main Burdens Of Doing Business Perceived By Family-Owned Hospitality Enterprises In Slovakia, Ľudmila Šmardová, Ľuboš Elexa

Journal of Entrepreneurship, Management and Innovation JEMI

The main aim of the article is to identify the main burdens of doing business perceived by Slovak family owned hospitality businesses as well as to assess their view on the prospects for family businesses in Slovakia. The article analyzes primary data gained from an opinion survey conducted by means of a questionnaire in 2013. The business environment perception is evaluated according to the perception of certain external business environment indicators (conditions of doing business) depicted on the basis of the results of the pilot survey conducted in 2009 and the research carried out in 2010/2011. The results allowed us …


Entrepreneurial Intention Determinants: An Empirical Model And A Case Of Iranian Students In Malaysia, Abdolhamid Papzan, Nashmil Afsharzade, Khadijeh Moradi Jan 2013

Entrepreneurial Intention Determinants: An Empirical Model And A Case Of Iranian Students In Malaysia, Abdolhamid Papzan, Nashmil Afsharzade, Khadijeh Moradi

Journal of Entrepreneurship, Management and Innovation JEMI

This study investigated entrepreneurial intention among graduate students of USM**** Engineering Campus. Applying the Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB; Ajzen), we examined the empirical model of entrepreneurial intention determinants. Although research has been conducted in entrepreneurial intention, limited study has been done among Iranian graduate students who are studying abroad. This research aims to fill this gap using Entrepreneurial Intention Questionnaire (EIQ, version 3.1). Accordingly, a survey study was applied and Iranian graduate students of the USM Engineering Campus were studied using the census method. The authors propose an empirical model and tested its reliability and validity using structural equation …


Differences In Perception Of The Participants In The Management Process And Its Real Trajectory, Olaf Flak, Adrian Pyszka Jan 2013

Differences In Perception Of The Participants In The Management Process And Its Real Trajectory, Olaf Flak, Adrian Pyszka

Journal of Entrepreneurship, Management and Innovation JEMI

The aim of the paper is to present results of the research that was focused on managers’ behaviours. We tried to discover the main differences between the real trajectory and perception of managers in the field of two types of management processes. In the first part of the paper there is a theoretical foundation of process management and conclusions that led to a research model. In the second part we present the state of art in the field of human perception theories. Then, we describe assumptions of the research and methods of gathering data. What is important in the case …


Internal Factors Of Academic Entrepreneurship: The Case Of Four Malaysian Public Research Universities, Mohar Yusof, Mohammad Saeed Siddiq, Leilanie Mohd Nor Jan 2012

Internal Factors Of Academic Entrepreneurship: The Case Of Four Malaysian Public Research Universities, Mohar Yusof, Mohammad Saeed Siddiq, Leilanie Mohd Nor

Journal of Entrepreneurship, Management and Innovation JEMI

This paper focused on academic entrepreneurship, an emerging phenomenon in Malaysian public research universities. The research demonstrated that academic entrepreneurship produced positive impact on research commercialization and university technology transfer for these public research universities. Academic entrepreneurship was also found to be one of the missing gaps in fulfilling the complete process of research and development up to commercialization. This study provided evidence of the appropriateness of using an organizational framework of academic entrepreneurship to measure the influence of the internal environment in stimulating the level of academic entrepreneurship. The results demonstrated that control systems, organizational culture, human resource management …


Affective Management And Its Effects On Management Performance, Waratta Authayarat, Hiroyuki Umemuro Jan 2012

Affective Management And Its Effects On Management Performance, Waratta Authayarat, Hiroyuki Umemuro

Journal of Entrepreneurship, Management and Innovation JEMI

Affective management is a new concept which suggests that top managers should take stakeholders’ affective experiences into account when making their management decisions. To show that this concept could contribute to the improvement of management performance in organizations, this study investigated the correlations between the affectiveness of top management and management performance indices. Our questionnaire based on the Affective Management Scorecard was employed to assess top managers’ recognition of the importance, as well as the actual practices of affective management. Top managers from 43 Thai organizations participated in the study. A correlation analysis was conducted to observe whether affective management …


The Role Of Hypertext In Consumer Decision Making. The Case Of Travel Destination Choice, Raul Valdez Muñoz Jan 2012

The Role Of Hypertext In Consumer Decision Making. The Case Of Travel Destination Choice, Raul Valdez Muñoz

Journal of Entrepreneurship, Management and Innovation JEMI

Travel is one of the most popular items people tend to be comfortable with purchasing over the Internet. Hypertext is a form of electronic text composed of blocks of words (or images) linked electronically by multiple paths, chains, or trails. This study explores the importance of hypertext in the travel destination choice from websites. Results show that hypertext links containing images of destinations, informative texts, and search tools are the three most important features utilized by tourist website browsers. This study aims to offer insights into new areas for further research on tourism websites design, application and evaluation.


Female Entrepreneurship – An Appropriate Response To Gender Discrimination, Jacques Ascher Jan 2012

Female Entrepreneurship – An Appropriate Response To Gender Discrimination, Jacques Ascher

Journal of Entrepreneurship, Management and Innovation JEMI

This study aims to discuss one of the most significant economic and social developments in the world – the rise of the female entrepreneurship phenomenon. Women entrepreneurship needs to be studied as a separate field for two main reasons: (a). Female entrepreneurship is an important source of economic growth in creating new jobs and by being genetically different: women provide different solutions to management and business issues; (b). Female entrepreneurship has been neglected, particularly in business research. Although equal opportunity for men and women in the entrepreneurial field is not a reality in the short range, the progress towards its …